I am a citizen of this planet, who believes there is a purpose and mission to our existence. I pursue that mission and try to enjoy every lesson, every day, and every last drop of the pain and joy we drink when we live. I live a mostly regret-free life, with each failure quickly becoming a valuable experience and something to laugh about, and every success something about which to be thankful and celebrative. I do all of this in and around my beloved Berkeley, California.

9/08/2007

My Piece in Peyk (Revised)*

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This week went by in a blur. Much is happening on the work front, with new projects and exciting changes. I come home tired but happier than I have been for a while. I just finished some volunteer work, and though I'm exhausted, I feel rather accomplished about it! In a few hours I will go pick up my house guests, two briliant young women, both successful in their respective careers, each of whom have made an effort to come see me. I am honored. Hosts and hostesses, I believe, get too much credit for their hospitality. The real credit should go to guests who can go anywhere, but choose to come and be with you. Sunday night is the night we will go to see Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam perform in Los Altos (watch the amazing video clips there if you didn't catch them earlier). It will be a busy weekend for me. Above is the image of an article, recently published in San Diego's Persian Cultural Center Peyk. I wrote it a while back, but hardly anyone ever saw it! I'm off for the weekend, then. I wish you all a very good weekend. Be happy, catch some zzz's, eat and drink what pleases you, do only things you want to do, and forget about what you don't like to do! Surround yourselves with those who make you happy, and tell them that they make you happy. You will see the effect. Be good y'all.

19 comments:

It's 4:30am, which means I will get exactly 30min of sleep before getting up and ready to go to the airport and up to SF to meet up with you. I just noticed that you mentioned link issues, so here is the correct link for Peyk which is working: http://www.pccsd.org/peyk/

The piece you wrote was very warm and touching and so terribly true for so many of us. I want to make sure everyone can access it. See you in a few hours!

Thanks Mersedeh Jan, for your kind comment and information. I don't think there is anything wrong with the links in my post. I think the problem is on the PCCSD end. I hope it gets fixed soon. I can't wait to see you my friend. Yes, I pulled an allnighter, too, except in your age it is alright once in a while, and in my age it is sheer madness anytime! See you soon.

Jeer Jan, Salam. I so wished you could be here, too! We went to see your favorite dancer, Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam tonight! Several of my friends were along, too, and jaye to va hamegi kheili khali bood. He will be here again next year in August. Perhaps you could plan to join us then. Take care.

I try not to be too predictable! I'm glad I confused you there for a while, as your name and address give me many possibilities for addressing you! Thanks for coming and for taking a look at my friends' links. I don't really enjoy visiting blogges who take themselves too seriously. It feels strange trying to join dialogues there. I like bloggers who are more approachable, and people on my list are of that variety, at least to me. I also try to add links of people who have added my link, and once I add a link I always go and visit them. My life is really hard in that area, as I don't have Blogrolling, and I go and check my friends one by one! I know it's crazy, but I have my reasons for not having used Blogrolling so far. I might have to give in and do it, as my link list grows. Be good ! Jan.